Gang lacing device.



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(Application filed Nov. 11, 1901.)

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JOHN C. TELFER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE TELFER MANUFACTURING (10., OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

GANG LAClNG DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,012, dated March 11, 1902.

Application filed November 11, 1901. Serial No. 81,805. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it Ti l/(by concern;

Be it known that I, JOHN C. TELFER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gang Lacing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to lacing devices for shoes, leggings, corsets, &c., and more especially to what I term a ganglacing device that is, a series of lacing hooks or loops inte grally united and arranged, by preference, side by side in a straight line-my object being to produce such gang lacing device as a new article of manufacture, to enable it to be more easily, expeditiously, and economically enameled, and when enameled to be shipped with less possibility of the enamel being chipped oif than where the hooks or loops are shipped in bulk. I

A furtherobject in the pro vision of the gang lacing device is to expedite reliable counting of the number shipped from the place of manufacture to each shoe-factory and the counting of the same when received at such factory.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspectine View of a gang lacing device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a modified construction Fig. 4 is a perspective view of Fig. 3.

In the said drawings the gang lacing device consists of a series of lacing hooks or loops comprising flat shanks 1,tapering at their side edges andterminating at their narrow ends in hooks'2. At their opposite ends said shanks are provided with spurs 3, projecting from the same sidesof the shanks as the hooks. In the preferred form the shanks are provided between said spurs with central fingers 4, occupyingv the same plane as the shanks and terminating at a suitable distance therefrom in arms 5, projecting in the same direction as spurs 3 and integrally united by a bar or strip 6.

In the modified construction, Fig. 3, the shanks are provided at points corresponding to spurs 3 with a pair of arms 3?, the adjacent arms 3 of the contiguous shanks being integrally united by bars or strips 7, corresponding in function to bar or strip 6.

Itis obvious that in lieu of the series of short longitudinally-alined bars or strips 7a single long strip or bar, Fig. 4:, like bar 6, might be employed. The construction shown in Fig.

3 is preferred, however, because the die for cutting the material can probably be made at less expense and a savingof the materialfrom which the devices are made is edected.

In practice it is designed to manufacture these hooks or loops in a gang of, say, twentyfive, in which state they can obviously be dipped or otherwise coated with enamel of the required color and can afterward be placed in ovens for baking with greater convenience and better results than if in bulk form. also clear that before and after enameling they can be counted to greater advantage and that their incasement in tissue-paper for purposes of shipment will eliminate any danger of the enamel chipping or flaking oif. It will 7 5 thus be seen that their arrival at the shoe-factory in perfect condition will be insured and that the inspection as to finish may be simultaneous with the computation as to number.

From the above description it will be ap- 8o parent that I have produced a gang lacing de- It is vice which embodies the features of advan tage enu merated as desirable in the statement of invention and that it is susceptible of modification in minor particulars without departuniting the opposite ends of andextending 5 substantially at rightangles to said shanks.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a gang lacing device, consisting of a series of shanks arranged side by side, and terminating at one end in books or loops and at their opposite I03 ends in arms and a strip integrally uniting said arms by a strip extending substantially at right angles to said shanks, substantially pyingthe same plane as said arms, substanto as described. tially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a gang In testimony whereof I affix my signature lacing device, consisting of a series of shanks in the presence of two witnesses. 5 arranged side by side and terminating at one end in hooks or loops and at their opposite JOHN TELFER' ends in arms projecting at an angle to the Witnesses: body of the hooks, and a bar or strip connect- H. O. RODGERS, ing the arms of contiguous shanks and occu- G. Y. THORPE. 

